1. With Trump's talk about "treasonous" Dems & some liberals buying into overheated Russia claims, there's a lot of accusations of McCarthyism flying around.
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2. But McCarthyism, properly understood, isn't just about smear tactics or conspiracy theories. It's the union of these with state power.
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3. In her excellent & definitive book "Many Are the Crimes," Ellen Schrecker suggests what we call McCarthyism is more properly Hooverism (as in J. Edgar).
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Would you say this is the best book on this subject?
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Schrecker's Many Are the Crimes.
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